Comments on: Cashing in American Express Membership Rewards Points

By: marlene cox

marlene cox — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:06:21 +0000

What do I need to do to cash in my membership rewards points? please I need simple instructions to use my points. thank you,

By: david

david — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:12:29 +0000

Wow, what a great deal. I spent only $4000 to trade those points for a Red Sox tee shirt or a Banacek-2nd Season DVD!!! My heart be still.
Granted there are some really cool things available, IF you have thousands and thousands of points; for which you spent thouands of dollars AND a yearly fee.
Moral of the story is redeem your points NOW before they raise the prices again and again and again.

david

P.S. Yes, I dumped out of this program.
OK, that my 2-cents ( or .02 points ) worth…
Good Luck All…

By: david

david — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:56:38 +0000

I only have a little over 3700 points ( left ). I looked a couple of months ago ( about April 2009 ) to redeem them. I found a travel toothbrush ultraviolet sanitizer in my ‘price’ range and I’d have a few left over. I just checked again, the same item ‘costs’ almost 6000 points now!!!
Moral of the story is redeem your points NOW before they raise the prices again and again and again.
This inflation is outrageous!!!

david

P.S. Yes, I dumped out of this program.

By: RICHARD MCBRADY

RICHARD MCBRADY — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:40:58 +0000

we want to use our points to give gift cards. how do you fi nd the list on the internet????????

By: joe

joe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:33:37 +0000

i have about 350.000 points dont know what to do.
there is nothing good to get

By: penelope harvey

penelope harvey — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:11:09 +0000

I would like to use my points to purchase an ipod. How do I do this? thanks, P harvey

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:59:42 +0000

Aw. I need to clean up my credit before I can apply for these awesome reward credit cards.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:15:39 +0000

The selection of items in AmEx’s rewards program is very limited, and seems to be getting smaller by the day. I was going to order a $50 Dell Accessories GC (w/ very restrictive terms) but just today I found it has been removed.

Their restaurant choices are for run-of-the-mill chains and their electronics choices are super-inflated. If I am redeeming these ‘free’ rewards, I would prefer some high-end restaurants or something useful like gas cards!! My girlfriend’s CITI rewards has these options.

I ended up getting a Home Depot GC but I still have 30k points I need to use up sometime. I believe they screw around with their program during the holidays, inflating points and removing vendors.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:12:12 +0000

Thanks for the AMEX tip a few months back. Got my 250 dollars worth of gift cards (home depot and restaurants) last week.

By: SC

SC — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:17:38 +0000

I actually like using the points over cash back. Since I am on a strict budget this probably doesn’t make sense but I like feeling I am getting the free extras I had to cut out in order to save money. If I earned money rewards, honestly it would just go into savings or to pay off debt and wouldn’t be any fun.

I usually choose Barnes & Noble Starbucks cards as I can sit back and know that I can get a couple free paperback books and a coffee or two and relax.

I do have the Amex Costco card–and what I found a bit cheesy was I got a large promo booklet that talked about all the cool things I could buy with my rebate. It really is a shopaholic mentality.

By: dong

dong — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:59:09 +0000

Nickel, i’m curious why you didn’t sign up for a new card? Therefore not have to worry about expiring points. That’s what I did a few months ago when i decided I wanted to go with the Amex Starwood program

By: HollyP

HollyP — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:23:21 +0000

I love the Amex rewards store gift cards. I use my card all year long, then cash in my rewards points for gift cards that I give as holiday gifts.

The store gift cards offer much more bang for my buck than the rewards gifts or Amex gift cards.

By: Michael B. Rubin

Michael B. Rubin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:12:55 +0000

Although selecting rewards is fun, if you’re a number/value person, you wind up doing exactly what you appeared to have done: figuring out the true value per point of each reward under consideration (been there myself).

So rather than choosing solely based on preference (a true reward), you base your selection on the value of the reward per point. A smart financial move to be sure, but don’t you wish each reward had roughly the same value per point? That way you could just pick the one you want. No math, no fuss.

By: The Saving Freak

The Saving Freak — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:10:54 +0000

After seeing so many bloggers switching we decided to do the same and ran into the same problem. Amex had the same result but WaMu was awful with their reward points. No more using that card ever again.